skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a box of old X10 devices here, one of the most reliable home automation systems I ever set up. I only switched to WiFi when my iobridge X10 controller failed and I couldnt work out the RS232 protocol for a different controller.
Yeah it works fine, when you click the “new page” button the template just gets duplicated from the base. So toothbrush will be duplicated for each new trip, checking one off won’t affect the others.

To be clear: it’s not a table of items to check off, it’s a table of packing list pages, within each page is a simple checklist.
>Why humans play? Why animals play? Why someone plays with their fidgeting toy while doing nothing? Why we doom-scroll without any apparent aim? Why cats run without any purpose? Why woodpeckers peck satellite dishes for no apparent reason, or cuckatoos "shout" into containers to see how their voice change?

We have some idea of why certain play activities evolved -- many young animals are obviously practicing hunting when they "play". We don't know why other behaviors, forms of play included, evolved, but it is obvious that they had to evolve, even if, like woodpeckers pecking on sources unlikely to yield food, the evolved behavior isn't being useful in the current situation. But the interesting thing in these cases is to figure why the behavior was selected for originally.
As mentioned in the article: Porkbun. A friend of mine uses Cloudflare as they don't charge on top the registration and ICANN fees that they have to pay (or so they say on https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/registrar/)
The ESP8684H2 is 1.20 qty 1, more than enough to handle BT an Wifi, then you can use any MCU you want as your application processor.
My set of lego pieces is a Lisp
You pronounce both of your examples with two S phonemes at the end. Putting that in the written form is absolutely Ok.
People might be surprised how dumb top universities can be. When everyone is biased to thinking they're the best, it pretty easily creates tunnel vision.
Or they got tired of pretending that AJ was anything other than the propaganda arm of a hostile foreign government.
Commercial ones are simple - unless it has a programmable “do the smoothie steps” button.
> The disaster was that harmful substances ended up in citizens body's. Veolia had very well a responsibility in that outcome, evidenced by the fact that they paid huge damages to the victims.

Once again: Veolia's role was in addition to the normal requirements and testing required by the US federal government (which is very similar to what Germany requires.) This was not privatization in lieu of public services, it was an additional stop-gap that failed.

The point being that privatization is not the issue - the same roles performed by the government in Germany are performed by the government in the US. All of which is a response to you stating it could not happen in Germany, because water isn't privatized.

> Of course not and that was never up for debate.

This was literally your evidence for saying it couldn't happen in Germany.

>> "If we're talking about unknown unknowns, this is true of anywhere in the world."

> No, water supply in Germany is closely monitored at the source, at the water works and even close to the user in apartment buildings and rental properties.

(Again, same as the US.) Followed by...

> If that does not convince you I'd like to point you to the list of water crisis in Wikipedia. There have been none in western Europe while the US had Flint and Jackson.

Your arguments have honestly been so disingenuous I can't even continue this.

> What happened in Flint was that the hole of the city and the hole of Veolia did align.

You are clearly still missing something if you think that Veolia had any hand in creating the water crisis, lol. They were hired as an outside party to keep the city (i.e. the government) honest after it became clear to citizens that the water supply had issues - and the government covered it up. Why do I keep having to repeat this?

Your argument has been that the water supply issues cannot happen in Germany because it's a public utility, controlled and monitored by the government. The same was true of Flint, and yet the government was responsible for creating the crisis and for failing to resolve it.
This would be great. Were using Grafana dashboards for thermal vacuum testing. Everyone is always asking for simple SCADA functionality.
Shame, it's a brilliant film.
I have to partly disagree with him there.

My schools included MIT and Brown. And I generally really liked the students at both. And I would hire many of them.

But I've also hung out in other circles that attract smart people, where I'd selectively hire first, before prioritizing random people from the fancy-pants schools.

And I've worked too many places where some of the smartest and most accomplished people came from BFE schools.

Also, note that undergrad programs have gotten insane with the gaming and the hoop-jumping. Even worse than when it was helicopter parents merely sending kids to prep schools, SAT prep, and the checkoff extracurriculars (e.g., "volunteering"). And that insanity can select for what you don't want to hire, to do actual work.

If you want "How to Start Google [where everyone focuses on the entrance exam, and then on gaming their promotions]" then you absolutely should hire Stanford students, who had to exercise very similar thinking to get into Stanford at this point.

Or, if you want to run a startup investment scam, where you need to apply some similar thinking of the appearance of accomplishments, and knocking down ducks lined up for you.

But if you want to solve problems, or build something that's not just headed for a financial exit, then Stanford-track kind of thinking seems probably counterproductive.

Imagine getting a new hire at an early startup, and they innately think that their job is to knock off sprint tasks, and have other appearances of performance.

And when you try to explain thinking about the organization's goals, and that their job is to help the team collectively achieve that... they think you're just spewing empty platitudes, like they were taught to spew for college application personal statements and job interviews.

You would've been so much better off hiring the scrappy person from the community college who hasn't had Stanford-track BS baked into them since grade school.
What Elon Musk's favorite game tells us about him
You can go pretty deep if you try to discover the fundamental belief systems or reasoning behind the 'core' DEI people. A lot of people just casually agree that "being fair" and "not being racist" is good. And it certainly is. And like many movements that involve propaganda/control/power, the key to enlisting large support is to hide the real motivations and goals within a cozy shell of easily consumable "moral" niceties.

Ironically, the methods that the DEI types use are not even hidden. There are numerous books and "scholarly" articles that discuss their methods in detail and also their true purpose.

At it's root DEI is one of the byproducts of Critical Race Theory which is derived from Critical Theory which is (arguably) the root of Marxism and a bunch of other -isms. You can think of Critical Theory as the most abstract form of that particular tree of political theory and Marxism applies it to class inequality and CRT applies it to race/gender inequality. This is a simplification, but it's good enough for now.

The CRT leader types are without a doubt anti-meritocracy, anti-science, anti-civilization, anti-family, etc.. They have said so directly and emphatically in books, papers, talks, etc..
People can enjoy making something useful and not Ad tech BS.
We need you at every fortune 500 company.

Our company for a while would recap promotions every quarter and breakdown promation rates by race... it was awakward and antithetical to what they were trying to accompish. Had a weird undertone of calling out races for underachieving lmao

"Blacks are being promoted 20% less than whites. We are getting better but can do even more to promote the interests of blacks at the company"
> Al Jazeera isn't free media. It's the propaganda arm of Qatar.

Conflating Qatar's other issues with Al Jazeera is misdirection.

Media watch groups consistently rate Al Jazeera as "neutral/balanced", with their perspective "skewing slightly left", which doesn't seem particularly consistent with Qatar.

> Ad Fontes Media rates Al Jazeera in the Skews Left category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability.

> All Sides rates Al Jazeera as "Leans Left"

> Al Jazeera equal in reliability to CNN

They are certainly not without issue, to be sure. But still.

Sources: https://adfontesmedia.com/al-jazeera-bias-and-reliability/ , https://www.allsides.com/news-source/al-jazeera-media-bias
Not all the liked videos, just musical ones.
You can easily kill ambition or by requiring everything to go into slow processes, no freedom, and corporate politics.

If there's any ambition left, it won't be for that company.
Sum and Product Puzzle
This doesn't seem true, reputation, status, credibility, etc., clearly have some nonzero value?

If anything, competitive people looking to climb the social ladder tend to be even more viscious when it comes to status games than the Gordon Geckos of the world.
They write these emails knowing that they'll be public record at some point. The audience is as much internal as it is for the history books. The details get hashed out offline, while the record gets preserved as an email
Funny to see Satya using it. You'd think he'd be on the full Outlook. Maybe it's a case of dogfooding.
> But if you send the point you are shrinking towards to infinity you get the naive estimator again.

You get close to it but strictly speaking wouldn’t it always be better than the naive estimator?
There is a public recreation facility called Peter'?s Field in NYC.

It is named primarily for Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper (NYC historical notables), secondarily for Peter Piper, Peter Parker, Peter Pan, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Peter Rabbit, and Peter from "Peter and the Wolf".

Seems they use Peters Field and Peter's Field but not Peters' Field.
The measurements in the default(?) plan look off:

cabinet 200cm x 92cm top 3cm bottom 15cm scale 5
50cm * * 20cm
* drawer door door drawer
* drawer ^ ^ drawer
* ^ ^ > drawer
* > drawer drawer <

The program suggests 4 x 18.6cm = 74.4cm, but the actual remaining height is 74cm (92 - 15 - 3). Changing the scale from 5 to 4 or 6 yields the correct value of 18.5cm
Was gonna say, the email reads similarly to this famous thread about Java (with the old CTO of MS!): https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-im-literally-losing-...

Really makes you think about the structure of mega corps and how powerful the “defender’s advantage” is. These giants knowingly sleep on disruption and wait to time their entry, and are generally rewarded. I dont know if its good or bad, it probably depends, but I think the capitalism game devs need some balance tweaks.
Who says that's the goal? Providing user value is falsely valued.
> Im not sure how you assign probability to finding truths of this manner. Again in the grand scheme of things, few hundred years is not very

We're not talking a few hundred years, we're talking a few thousand at least. Human specialness rarely survives serious inquiry. There are no divine kings or priests, humans are not created in God's image, we're just another animal, and other animals have similar cognitive functions as we do. All of these and more were believed at one time or another, but have no factual basis.

> Second, what you consider to be "materialist" is entirely subjective which can and has been amended. We readily accept force/energy and now randomness as part of material science.

Materialism hasn't really changed, it's always and continues to be the position that all that we perceive is made of some common, physical substance governed by natural laws. That our understanding of how this works evolves doesn't change anything.

> And if one cannot explain onserved phenomena, it is only logical to have to add onto a model.

The suggestion that we cannot explain observed phenomena is exactly the point in contention. Neuroscience has barely gotten started, and the cracks in mystical properties of consciousness are practically chasms already. There is simply no basis for claiming that we need to extend our ontology to account for the mind.

> Lastly, what distinction do you make between experience and perception exactly?

Machine perception is a thing, machine experience is not. We too are machines with some extra capabilities, and one of them must produce the belief of experience as a side-effect. The conclusion is based on an illusion though, it's only perception and information processing in the end.
You need to be careful with what plugs you choose, though, because they each have, let's say, their own peculiarities.

For instance, their overvoltage protection might not align well with what the local regulations say. For example, in my region of EU, the upper voltage tolerances are such that 264V must trigger an instant poweroff, and also anything producing power must shut off if the average voltage over the last 10 minutes was 253V or more. However, TuYa sockets which pretty much are the only in-wall variety I was able to find on the local market, shut off at 260V. This tends to be somewhat problematic in an area saturated with PV installations, like the one I'm living in.

This problem is compounded by the fact that the reported measurements of sockets sitting on the same phase tend to differ quite a bit. Some sockets tend to overstate the voltage compared to neighboring sockets sitting on the same wires. Thus, they shut off when they think it's 260V, while it might just as well be 255V.

Just saying that if you put lots of those in your walls, you might suddenly find yourself in a need to prepare some automations to try and bring the sockets on once the voltage is back to normal. This particular variety of sockets won't come back on after the voltage drops.
SIMD is great if you want to convert to UTF-32 but most of the time, I want to iterate over UTF-8 codepoints directly. The initial test for a 1-byte sequence is just too simple with a branch and will be hit most of the time. Asian scripts are an exception but there you have longer runs of 3-byte sequences. Testing with real-world data, I found the worst case for the branch predictor to be Eastern European scripts which often alternate between 1- and 2-byte sequences. But even with Czech language content, I got around 800 MB/s with the naive approach, IIRC.
Not sure exactly how this relates, but you're still saying with people being failed that the class representation was more equitable? Not sure what them being jewish has anything to do with it?
Maybe there are other exercises with similar motion (squats?) that you would like to support as well?
Great idea to use these sensors and I also like the idea of providing audio feedback btw.
Should we outlaw executives having business-related phone calls or face-to-face conversations, too?
Don’t want to create evidence? Stop chatting about how to potentially violate the law.
My current mental model of LLMs is that attention refines information from the input (e.g. "red balloon" becomes some vector that means red + balloon), and that the feed-forward layers are lossy compressed indexes into the training set.

From the paper, having a better n-gram index is giving as much perplexity improvement as a 10x increase in parameters. I wonder if it would make sense to train new foundation models with more attention heads and use infinigram in lieu of the feed-forward layer.
Both are true, Rust just has more restrictions. It’s not completely equivalent, but you can think of `Arc<T>` as `std::shared_ptr<const T>` as in if you use `unsafe` or `const_cast` you can bypass mutability restrictions. Otherwise to mutate you need another abstraction doing `unsafe` things for you, such as `Mutex`.

I mentioned Chromium because they also differentiate between thread safe and non-thread safe shared pointers.

If anything, Rust shared pointers are more similar to C++ std pointers because in Chromium the reference count is inside the class, which is very handy because you can reconstruct a smart pointer from a raw pointer (like `this`), at the cost of needing `T` to extend `base::RefCounted`.
Personally, I use pairdrop for that. Though, if I'm limited to CLI, woof has an upload option (-U) allowing me to select a file from the phone. Don't know of an easy way to do that from the builtin http.server.
This is the only thing that ever plays in my mind when reading "Jack Dorsey":

> Twitter user @deyonte_btc asks:

Stream sats. Build LN into BlueSky or Twitter please and thank you.

> @jack replies:

Only a matter of time

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1403174877444587523

I will never trust a crypto-bro's product until they take the crypto-bro out of it.
Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it
I don't know how to reconcile that with this other chart which shows agricultural land went from 4.81 billion ha in 2000 to 4.83 billion ha in 2023.

Per capita it's still a decline. Personally I would attribute it to increasing yields in the developing world which are due to modern practices, pesticides, and fertilizers. But it doesn't show a decline like in the chart you posted.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-agricultural-area-o...
I'll take a shot at a strongperson argument...

DEI statements are important because they show individual awareness of historical inequities and current biases that form modern society.

In an organization that wishes to promote more equitable outcomes for society and its employees, ensuring that existing/prospective employees are aware of biases that might color their own judgement is useful in counterbalancing them.

As a consequence, a DEI statement at the time of hiring or promotion is useful in encouraging self-reflection and promoting DEI.

... that said, from a personal perspective (and with apologies to anyone working in HR), they seem like the typical "moderately good idea that's run through the HR cost center grist mill and comes out as the most unimaginative, milquetoast check box possible" implementation.
HA will happily run offline; if you mean HAOS then I don't know what it does but it's an unorthodox Linux distro, but once it installs it should also run offline without issues. I'm also using their skyconnect zigbee coordinator and it works very well.
Show HN: 25.3 inch E-Ink Art Display
The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs
It does happen and is very handy.

Your far-fetched example is easily circumvented with a disclaimer saying this is a form copy (duh).
I've never received one that didn't say that.
I scrape power usage metrics from Tapo P110s and push them to Grafana Cloud using https://github.com/richardjennings/tapmon - although as other commenters have noted - using Wifi for smart plugs has its rough edges.
Nice! X-plane also has a great API to do these things with. It was created by NASA for research: https://github.com/nasa/XPlaneConnect
It’s just being conspicuous that they’re doing the performatively ‘right thing’, something academia is quite familiar with.

That way they can point to their statement anytime grant writers/sponsors need to show their respective stakeholders that they’re ’good folks’.

Don’t worry, regardless they’ll still treat their grad students as terribly as the law allows (and a bit worse).
California in the mid-2010s.
ATHOM plugs are very nice, you can order one with ESPHome or Tasomata firmware preinstalled and they can ship from Germany https://www.athom.tech/
I am almost certain that by 2100, the current worship of skin-deep diversity will be relegated to the cabinet of ancient curiosities, along with lobotomy, bell-bottom jeans and haruspicy [0], and people will worship something equally weird, but momentarily fashionable.

Diversity is not really a value. If it were, it would have been recognized as such millennia ago, because already the Egyptians and the Babylonians knew what mixed societies looked like. It is not as if American diversity is a new phenomenon, never seen before. Rome or Alexandria in 1 AD was very diverse, and so was India when Buddha was still a young and naive prince.

Real human values, virtues and vices don't change that much across centuries. You can still discern courage, truthfulness, sloth or compassion in stories written three thousand years ago and half a world away. Diversity as a pseudovalue is a modern fad of American origin, partly conjured into being by ancient American racial problems.

Even many American allies (Japan, Taiwan, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Argentina, Israel etc.) don't bother to even pretend to worship at that DEI-emblazoned altar, so dear to the good professors of Berkeley. Countries with more distant political systems like the Arab sheikhdoms or China probably don't even understand what the word is supposed to mean.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex
Hi, I am a student in college and I am trying to gauge interest for an app that helps people buy used cars.

Thank you!
Not really the same thing but I worked for an organisation which had as a policy that every single team meeting had to have diversity & equality as a recurring item for discussion. 95% of the time this just meant the meeting lead saying "So...diversity - anyone got anything to say?" and then we moved onto the next item after a short silence. But every once in a while someone would raise something that might not have otherwise been brought up. It's a very crude instrument but it probably did get people to think a little more in that direction and maybe led to a little more awareness overall. The other standing item was health and safety which had a similar outcome.
> That point is that with clean drinking water chlorine is unneccessary as evidenced by all developed countries except the US, Sinagpore and Canada.

And once again, whether necessary or unnecessary, the original question was whether the water supply is safe to drink in the United States. And - at least in regards to municipal water (houses on well, e.g. in rural areas, obviously vary) - it is.
Please don't post flamewar comments to Hacker News. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've been happy with my tplink sockets, especially running them off-cloud, and getting some command line control over them (although I think that debug api got blocked on later firmware updates). But quite easy to feed data into any db once you have such control.

Just about to try some ikea zigbee sockets, seem cheap(7e) in comparison. I hope I can also get them working command line based, just trying to setup a sonoff usb stick with some python package (bellows) as we speak.
A declaration of support for those line items would be more impactful if it came from the university administration.
Reality disagrees with your worldview. There is only one thing that's "worth a promotion" and that's convincing the person able to greenlight it that you deserve it.

This very rarely corresponds with the ability to deliver good software in medium to large enterprises and entirely with your ability to market yourself. Which is easier if you're able to show them a super complex problem you've solved, because it sounds impressive to a mba...
New survey finds positive perceptions of solar projects
Note that my comment was observational, I'm not saying companies should use Windows, and I'm not even talking about reasons for using one tech stack or another. I'm just reminding the parent that this association of Windows with "non-technical" is nonsense -- lots of extremely talented folks work on difficult and important problems and critical systems on Windows, targeting Microsoft stacks. Further, it seems likely that most software is written on Windows.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Banning Al Jazeera is arguably more humane than shooting a rocket into their offices, as was done by Israel in Gaza and the US Army in Baghdad.